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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Seneca the Younger

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

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